Introduction to Nonlinear Optical Effects in Molecules and Polymers / Edition 1

by Paras N. Prasad, David J. Williams

Overview

Molecular Dynamics in Restricted Geometries Edited by Joseph Klafter and J. M. Drake This investigation of the chemistry and physics of complex systems focuses on the role of spatial restrictions on molecular movement. A practical source-book for researchers in chemical physics, chemical engineering, and condensed matter physics, and for graduate students in these fields, it covers a broad range of topics and critically evaluates methods as they are employed. Among the many topics it covers are: relaxation and diffusion in restricted geometries, excitation energy transfer and photoinduced electron transfer phenomena in some confined systems, electron excitation transport in micelles, polymers and multilayers, and electron excitation transport on polymer chains. 1989 (0 471-60176-4) 437 pp.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471515623
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/16/1991
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.36(w) x 9.65(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

About the authors PARAS N. PRASAD is Professor of Chemistry and Director of Photonics Research Laboratory at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has been since 1974. He is the coeditor of the books Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers and Nonlinear Optical Effects in Organic Polymers. Dr. Prasad was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and received two gold medals from Bihar University for standing first in his MSc and BSc exams. He received a PhD in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. DAVID J. WILLIAMS has been Head of Molecular and Optical Electronics Laboratory at Eastman Kodak Company since 1985. Previously, he was manager of the Chemical Research Area at Xerox Corporation. He is the editor of the book Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic and Polymeric Materials and a member of the American Chemical Society and Optical Society of America. Dr. Williams received his PhD in chemical physics from the University of Rochester in 1968.

Table of Contents

Basis and Formulation of Nonlinear Optics.

Origin of Microscopic Nonlinearity in Organic Systems.

Bulk Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility.

Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes.

Measurement Techniques for Second-Order Nonlinear OpticalEffects.

A Survey of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials.

Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes.

Measurement Techniques for Third-Order Nonlinear OpticalEffects.

A Survey of Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials.

Nonlinear Optics in Optical Waveguides and Fibers.

Device Concepts.

Issues and Future Directions.

Appendix.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

The ultimate objective is to exploit the resources of polymer chemistry to develop materials specially tailored to optimize the nonlinear optical effects which (it is already clear) will be basic to the "photonics" of the future. The effort to reach that objective can be expected not only to bring us closer to the "devices" of the future, but also to teach us much of intrinsic interest concerning the structure of organic molecules and polymers. The authors have been at pains to serve realistically an interdisciplinary readership; they are aware that the optics will be unfamiliar to some chemists, and the chemistry to opticians, and want all to be able to share the excitement, and participate productively in the work, of this threshold field. From every point of view a very nicely conceived and executed book. (NW) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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